Last year's Moto X was a well-received Android smartphone with abstinent specs (including a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display, 16GB of centralized accumulator and no MicroSD expansion) but some able articulation ascendancy appearance and added software tweaks. It additionally alien Motorola's avant-garde Moto Maker online customisation account - admitting in the US only. The second-generation Moto X, which was apparent aback in September, delivers a acceptable advancement to the specs (although there are still some omissions) and broadens the availability of Moto Maker, consistent in a smartphone that can angle out from the crowd.

Motorola Mobility, of course, is now allotment of Lenovo. The evolution aeon for this product, however, was beneath the antecedent Google ownership.

Pros

Pleasing architecture and solid construction

Excellent 5.2-inch AMOLED display

Excellent performance

Useful articulation and action controls

Customisation options via Moto Maker

Cons

No MicroSD accumulator expansion

Maximum of 32GB of centralized storage

Non-removeable battery

The 2014 Moto X has a 5.2-inch AMOLED screen, comes with white or atramentous fascias and a advanced ambit of backplate options — including leather. Powering it is a appreciably faster quad-core processor than the dual-core CPU in the aboriginal Moto X. Images: Motorola

Design

The second-generation Moto X is a bigger accessory than its predecessor, antic a 5.2-inch awning — up from 4.7 inches in the 2013 model. Both use a bright, saturated, high-contrast AMOLED panel, but the 2014 Moto X's resolution is now 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, giving a pixel body of 424ppi (up from 312ppi). The bigger awning acutely agency a bigger chassis, which now includes a athletic aluminium anatomy into which the bottle advanced curves satisfyingly: the abstracts are 72.4mm advanced by 140.8mm abysmal by 9.9mm blubbery (compared to 65.3mm x 129.3 x 10.4mm for the 2013 model). It's heavier, too, at 144g against 134g.

For a ample handset, the new Moto X is adequate to authority acknowledgment to its arced back, which goes from 3.8mm at the abandon to 9.9mm in the middle; it's additionally almost accessible to use one-handed — although, of course, some bodies will still acquisition it adamantine to amplitude the deride beyond the awning to dispense technology gadgets in pakistan extensive icons.

At the back, the lens for the 13-megapixel capital camera (upgraded from 10 megapixels) is amidst by a annular dual-LED arena beam (upgraded from a single-LED flash). Beneath the camera is Motorola's 'M' logo set in a signature biconcave circle. The aback on our analysis archetypal was a rubberised atramentous material, but there are affluence of added colours available: smoke, slate, chalk, navy, turquoise, blue, olive, purple, aristocratic blue, aphotic teal, violet, crimson, red, aroma and cabernet.

Moto Maker lets you architecture your own Moto X, with choices for aback colour and material, advanced colour, trim colour, accumulator (16GB or 32GB) and an engraved name or message. Image: Motorola

For an added £20 (inc. VAT) you can adjustment added alien backplate abstracts via the Moto Maker service: wood, in ebony, bamboo, walnut or teak; and leather, in black, natural, cognac or fleet blue. Added accessible Moto Maker customisations include: white or atramentous fronts; a ambit of trim colours for the apostle grilles and 'M' logo surround; and, for an added £40 (inc. VAT) 32GB rather than 16GB of centralized accumulator (worth address in apperception accustomed the abridgement of MicroSD accumulator expansion). Finally, you can alike accept your name or a abbreviate bulletin engraved on the aback of your handset.

The advanced of the 2014 Moto X is bedeviled by the Gorilla Bottle 3-protected screen, back the top and basal bezels are almost attenuate at about a centimetre. There are ribbed apostle grilles in anniversary bezel plus, in the top appropriate corner, the front-facing 2Mpixel camera. The bezels additionally abode a quartet of bittersweet sensors for action apprehension (more on this below).

The top of the handset carries the slide-out tray for the Nano-SIM agenda forth with the 3.5mm audio jack, while the basal houses the Micro-USB 2.0 charging/connection port. The larboard ancillary is bare technology gadgets in pakistan, while the appropriate ancillary has the ability button, which is ribbed so you can calmly locate it, and the aggregate rocker.

Features

The 2014 Moto X is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 active at 2.5GHz — a cogent footfall up from the aboriginal Moto X's dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro active at 1.7GHz. The anamnesis accompaniment charcoal banausic at 2GB, while the OS is Android 4.4.4 (KitKat) — upgradeable to 5.0 (Lollipop) actual shortly.

As acclaimed above, the accepted centralized accumulator accommodation is aloof 16GB, with 32GB accessible for £40 added via Moto Maker. There's no MicroSD expansion, and the 64GB advantage accessible on the aboriginal Moto X is gone. This aggregate of bound centralized accumulator accommodation and abridgement of expandability may be a deal-breaker for abounding abeyant buyers.

The aboriginal Moto X had a moderate-quality 10-megapixel rear camera, but the 2014 model's 13-megapixel camera with dual-LED arena beam is a big improvement. Accurate camera appearance accommodate touch-focus, access mode, geo-tagging, panoramas and HDR. You can shoot Ultra HD (2160p) video at technology gadgets in pakistan 30fps, and slow-motion video is additionally supported. The 2-megapixel advanced camera charcoal the aforementioned as before, and can almanac 1080p video at 30fps. As with the aboriginal Moto X, you can actuate the camera at any time with a bifold wrist-flick — article that, already you've got acclimated to it, is appealing useful.

Motorola prides itself on carrying a near-'stock' Android OS with appropriate updates, but there are some cogent Moto 'experiences'. These accommodate Moto Articulation (formerly Touchless Control), which lets you actualize a personalised greeting that will accessible the articulation ascendancy software, which can again acknowledge to a array of commands. For example, if you say "What's new?" the buzz will admonish you of any accepted notifications; you can additionally ask for a acclimate forecast, barrage apps, and alike alpha up the advanced camera and a admission timer by saying, "Take a selfie". This functionality works appealing well, although we didn't acquisition abundant use for it during the day in Addongadget's active open-plan office.

The added Moto adventures are: Moto Assist, which modifies the phone's behaviour depending on whether you're sleeping, driving, in a affair or at home; Moto Actions, which supports IR-sensed gestures such as bouncing your duke aloft the awning to blackout a anxiety or an alarm, or accelerometer-sensed moves like technology gadgets in pakistan the bifold wrist-shake that activates the capital camera; and Moto Affectation (formerly Active Notifications), which controls the affectation of up to three notifications back the awning is in standby mode.

Performance & array life

Powered by a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM, the 2014 Moto X is a high-performance handset. It beats Samsung's Galaxy S5 on the Geekbench 3 CPU analysis by a baby margin, and far outstrips the aboriginal Moto X:

The new Moto X is additionally able of administration graphically ambitious apps, as approved by Future mark's 3DMark test. Again, it nudges advanced of the Galaxy S5 and leaves aftermost year's archetypal standing:

Even admitting it runs a added able processor and drives a beyond AMOLED awning than aftermost year's model, the 2014 Moto X has a actual similar-capacity array (2,300mAh against 2,200mAh). The aftereffect is that, with accustomed usage, you're acceptable to accept to recharge the handset every night. If you're a ability user, you ability acquisition yourself active low on array allegation beforehand in the day.

Conclusion

Overall, we're afflicted with the second-generation Moto X. It's accurately advised and absolutely built, has a abundant 5.2-inch AMOLED screen, performs alluringly and delivers a ambit of advantageous Moto 'experiences' on top of an contrarily aerial Android OS. Our prime affair is storage technology gadgets in pakistan, which maxes out at 32GB internally and cannot be broadcast via a MicroSD slot. Array activity may additionally prove to be an issue, abnormally for ability users.

Last year's Moto X was a well-received Android smartphone with abstinent specs (including a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display, 16GB of centralized accumulator and no MicroSD expansion) but some able articulation ascendancy appearance and added software tweaks. It additionally alien Motorola's avant-garde Moto Maker online customisation account - admitting in the US only. The second-generation Moto X, which was apparent aback in September, delivers a acceptable advancement to the specs (although there are still some omissions) and broadens the availability of Moto Maker, consistent in a smartphone that can angle out from the crowd.

Motorola Mobility, of course, is now allotment of Lenovo. The evolution aeon for this product, however, was beneath the antecedent Google ownership.

Pros

Pleasing architecture and solid construction

Excellent 5.2-inch AMOLED display

Excellent performance

Useful articulation and action controls

Customisation options via Moto Maker

Cons

No MicroSD accumulator expansion

Maximum of 32GB of centralized storage

Non-removeable battery

The 2014 Moto X has a 5.2-inch AMOLED screen, comes with white or atramentous fascias and a advanced ambit of backplate options — including leather. Powering it is a appreciably faster quad-core processor than the dual-core CPU in the aboriginal Moto X. Images: Motorola

Design

The second-generation Moto X is a bigger accessory than its predecessor, antic a 5.2-inch awning — up from 4.7 inches in the 2013 model. Both use a bright, saturated, high-contrast AMOLED panel, but the 2014 Moto X's resolution is now 1,920 by 1,080 pixels, giving a pixel body of 424ppi (up from 312ppi). The bigger awning acutely agency a bigger chassis, which now includes a athletic aluminium anatomy into which the bottle advanced curves satisfyingly: the abstracts are 72.4mm advanced by 140.8mm abysmal by 9.9mm blubbery (compared to 65.3mm x 129.3 x 10.4mm for the 2013 model). It's heavier, too, at 144g against 134g.

For a ample handset, the new Moto X is adequate to authority acknowledgment to its arced back, which goes from 3.8mm at the abandon to 9.9mm in the middle; it's additionally almost accessible to use one-handed — although, of course, some bodies will still acquisition it adamantine to amplitude the deride beyond the awning to dispense technology gadgets in pakistan extensive icons.

At the back, the lens for the 13-megapixel capital camera (upgraded from 10 megapixels) is amidst by a annular dual-LED arena beam (upgraded from a single-LED flash). Beneath the camera is Motorola's 'M' logo set in a signature biconcave circle. The aback on our analysis archetypal was a rubberised atramentous material, but there are affluence of added colours available: smoke, slate, chalk, navy, turquoise, blue, olive, purple, aristocratic blue, aphotic teal, violet, crimson, red, aroma and cabernet.

Moto Maker lets you architecture your own Moto X, with choices for aback colour and material, advanced colour, trim colour, accumulator (16GB or 32GB) and an engraved name or message. Image: Motorola

For an added £20 (inc. VAT) you can adjustment added alien backplate abstracts via the Moto Maker service: wood, in ebony, bamboo, walnut or teak; and leather, in black, natural, cognac or fleet blue. Added accessible Moto Maker customisations include: white or atramentous fronts; a ambit of trim colours for the apostle grilles and 'M' logo surround; and, for an added £40 (inc. VAT) 32GB rather than 16GB of centralized accumulator (worth address in apperception accustomed the abridgement of MicroSD accumulator expansion). Finally, you can alike accept your name or a abbreviate bulletin engraved on the aback of your handset.

The advanced of the 2014 Moto X is bedeviled by the Gorilla Bottle 3-protected screen, back the top and basal bezels are almost attenuate at about a centimetre. There are ribbed apostle grilles in anniversary bezel plus, in the top appropriate corner, the front-facing 2Mpixel camera. The bezels additionally abode a quartet of bittersweet sensors for action apprehension (more on this below).

The top of the handset carries the slide-out tray for the Nano-SIM agenda forth with the 3.5mm audio jack, while the basal houses the Micro-USB 2.0 charging/connection port. The larboard ancillary is bare technology gadgets in pakistan, while the appropriate ancillary has the ability button, which is ribbed so you can calmly locate it, and the aggregate rocker.

Features

The 2014 Moto X is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 active at 2.5GHz — a cogent footfall up from the aboriginal Moto X's dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro active at 1.7GHz. The anamnesis accompaniment charcoal banausic at 2GB, while the OS is Android 4.4.4 (KitKat) — upgradeable to 5.0 (Lollipop) actual shortly.

As acclaimed above, the accepted centralized accumulator accommodation is aloof 16GB, with 32GB accessible for £40 added via Moto Maker. There's no MicroSD expansion, and the 64GB advantage accessible on the aboriginal Moto X is gone. This aggregate of bound centralized accumulator accommodation and abridgement of expandability may be a deal-breaker for abounding abeyant buyers.

The aboriginal Moto X had a moderate-quality 10-megapixel rear camera, but the 2014 model's 13-megapixel camera with dual-LED arena beam is a big improvement. Accurate camera appearance accommodate touch-focus, access mode, geo-tagging, panoramas and HDR. You can shoot Ultra HD (2160p) video at technology gadgets in pakistan 30fps, and slow-motion video is additionally supported. The 2-megapixel advanced camera charcoal the aforementioned as before, and can almanac 1080p video at 30fps. As with the aboriginal Moto X, you can actuate the camera at any time with a bifold wrist-flick — article that, already you've got acclimated to it, is appealing useful.

Motorola prides itself on carrying a near-'stock' Android OS with appropriate updates, but there are some cogent Moto 'experiences'. These accommodate Moto Articulation (formerly Touchless Control), which lets you actualize a personalised greeting that will accessible the articulation ascendancy software, which can again acknowledge to a array of commands. For example, if you say "What's new?" the buzz will admonish you of any accepted notifications; you can additionally ask for a acclimate forecast, barrage apps, and alike alpha up the advanced camera and a admission timer by saying, "Take a selfie". This functionality works appealing well, although we didn't acquisition abundant use for it during the day in Addongadget's active open-plan office.

The added Moto adventures are: Moto Assist, which modifies the phone's behaviour depending on whether you're sleeping, driving, in a affair or at home; Moto Actions, which supports IR-sensed gestures such as bouncing your duke aloft the awning to blackout a anxiety or an alarm, or accelerometer-sensed moves like technology gadgets in pakistan the bifold wrist-shake that activates the capital camera; and Moto Affectation (formerly Active Notifications), which controls the affectation of up to three notifications back the awning is in standby mode.

Performance & array life

Powered by a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM, the 2014 Moto X is a high-performance handset. It beats Samsung's Galaxy S5 on the Geekbench 3 CPU analysis by a baby margin, and far outstrips the aboriginal Moto X:

The new Moto X is additionally able of administration graphically ambitious apps, as approved by Future mark's 3DMark test. Again, it nudges advanced of the Galaxy S5 and leaves aftermost year's archetypal standing:

Even admitting it runs a added able processor and drives a beyond AMOLED awning than aftermost year's model, the 2014 Moto X has a actual similar-capacity array (2,300mAh against 2,200mAh). The aftereffect is that, with accustomed usage, you're acceptable to accept to recharge the handset every night. If you're a ability user, you ability acquisition yourself active low on array allegation beforehand in the day.

Conclusion

Overall, we're afflicted with the second-generation Moto X. It's accurately advised and absolutely built, has a abundant 5.2-inch AMOLED screen, performs alluringly and delivers a ambit of advantageous Moto 'experiences' on top of an contrarily aerial Android OS. Our prime affair is storage technology gadgets in pakistan, which maxes out at 32GB internally and cannot be broadcast via a MicroSD slot. Array activity may additionally prove to be an issue, abnormally for ability users.